Jaime Lerner Quotes
A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.
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I'm 68 years old, and I'm as much a criminal now as I was at the age of 22. And, I'm even more of a dissident than I was then.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
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When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.
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I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
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Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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I don't run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America - in Detroit, parts of Wall Street, etc. I run a not for profit. We're a business. The only difference is that instead of selling soap or sneakers, we sell hope and leadership.
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Obviously, Ian Paisley and I were regarded as very bitter opponents. When we decided in March 2007 to govern together, both of us understood that we weren't going to change our views but that we had to work with one another if we were to end the conflict and move forward.
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I want to show everyone that if you pursue your dreams, they can come true no matter what. That's what I want to do.
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I think anyone who serves in public office should have a little bit of contempt for government in their heart.
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No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.
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A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.
